speaking — English to French

How English speaking is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

What it means: speaking in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: speaking (47 865). By style: everyday 505 · literary 31 · biblical 87 · parliamentary 5 867 · legal and administrative 344 · UN documents 41 031.

parler

Used about 10 426 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 242 · literary ≈ 15 · biblical ≈ 33 · parliamentary ≈ 733 · UN documents ≈ 9 403). Forms: parlant, parler.

• She went on speaking.

  Elle continua à parler.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #317518 #4758410

• Properly speaking, he did not enter.

  À proprement parler, il n'entra pas.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 6436

• When Moses was done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face.

  Lorsque Moïse eut achevé de leur parler, il mit un voile sur son visage.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EXO 34:33

• To be perfectly clear: I am not speaking now on behalf of my group.

  Pour parler clairement: je ne m'exprime pas ici au nom de mon groupe.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 467840

• 39. The CHAIRMAN, speaking in his personal capacity, said he would prefer “a high degree of autonomy”.

  39. Le PRÉSIDENT, parlant en son nom propre, préférerait " un haut degré d ' autonomie " .

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 4891446

parole

Used about 5 801 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 1 345 · legal and administrative ≈ 179 · UN documents ≈ 4 274).

• While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all those who heard the word.

  Comme Pierre prononçait encore ces mots, le Saint-Esprit descendit sur tous ceux qui écoutaient la parole.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 10:44

• My speaking time has run out.

  Mon temps de parole est écoulé.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1294464

• Standards of conduct and speaking time

  Règles de conduite et temps de parole

  DGT-TM v2021 · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 3236133

• I now give the floor to Ambassador Skotnikov, speaking on behalf of the Eastern European Group.

  Je donne maintenant la parole à l ' Ambassadeur Skotnikov, intervenant au nom du Groupe de l ' Europe orientale.

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 8963842

• So also you, unless you uttered by the tongue words easy to understand, how would it be known what is spoken? For you would be speaking into the air.

  De même vous, si par la langue vous ne donnez pas une parole distincte, comment saura-t-on ce que vous dites? Car vous parlerez en l’air.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 14:9

More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

• He isn't speaking.

  Il ne parle pas.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zogwarg and Julien_PDC · checked, community translation · #11956300 #8663796

• I'm better at writing French than speaking it.

  En français, je suis meilleure à l’écrit qu’à l’oral.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by DemonicSatori and gillux · checked, community translation · #8919711 #7903909

• My speaking and listening in Turkish needs improvement.

  Mes compétences en expression orale et en compréhension orale en turc ont besoin d'être améliorées.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by DostKaplan and Rovo · checked, community translation · #3527483 #13953078

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